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• Top Asian News at 8:30 p.m. GMT
• Cautious Merkel on verge of biggest risk with 'Grexit'
• Kuwait says mosque bomber was young Saudi man, detains driver
• Jailed American in Iran must be freed, say family at Vienna nuclear talks
• Dalai Lama urges happiness and peace at Glastonbury
• Gunmen kill senior Iraqi oil official in Iraq's Kirkuk
• American Al Qaeda to ISIS: No Paradise for You
• French beheading selfie 'sent to Syria'
• Close aide of Syria's Assad dies of cancer
• Dalai Lama finds joy in Glastonbury 'people's' festival
• U.S., allies conduct air strikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State: U.S. military
• Kuwait Shiite mosque bomber was Saudi national
• Sudan says students with Western passes believed on way to Syria
• IS executes over 3,000 in Syria in year-long 'caliphate': monitor
• Kuwait names Saudi man as suicide bomber in mosque attack
• Afghan official: IS group present in at least 3 provinces
• Albanian police arrest brothers suspected of killing officer
• European tour operators evacuate thousands from Tunisia after attack
• Australian IS fighter 'still alive' after drone strike: report
• Today in History
• Horror on the sand in Tunisian hotel massacre
• Kuwait's Shi'ites mourn blast victims and lament sectarianism
• Britain mourns at least 15 dead in Tunisia attack
• Inmate to plead guilty in federal prison guard's killing

Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 28 Jun 2015 04:33 PM PDT TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — More than 400 people, many of them seriously burned, remained in hospitals Sunday after a fire spread into a crowd of spectators at a music party at a Taiwan water park, authorities said. The fire late Saturday was sparked by an accidental explosion of a colored theatrical powder thrown from the stage in front of about 1,000 people, the local fire agency and media said. The powder for the one-time event called "Color Play Asia" ignited along the ground, mainly burning people's lower bodies, said Wang Wei-sheng, a liaison with the New Taipei City fire department command center.

Top Asian News at 8:30 p.m. GMT Posted: 28 Jun 2015 01:33 PM PDT TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — More than 400 people, many of them seriously burned, remained in hospitals Sunday after a fire spread into a crowd of spectators at a music party at a Taiwan water park, authorities said. The fire late Saturday was sparked by an accidental explosion of a colored theatrical powder thrown from the stage in front of about 1,000 people, the local fire agency and media said. The powder for the one-time event called "Color Play Asia" ignited along the ground, mainly burning people's lower bodies, said Wang Wei-sheng, a liaison with the New Taipei City fire department command center.

Cautious Merkel on verge of biggest risk with 'Grexit' Posted: 28 Jun 2015 01:11 PM PDT By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - "If you break it, you own it," former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell warned President George W. Bush before his invasion of Iraq. Whether it will ever be fair to blame Angela Merkel for "breaking" Greece is debatable. Unlike her finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, who sent abundant signals in recent months that he could accept a euro zone that does not include Greece, Merkel has been determined to avoid such an outcome, according to her closest advisers.

Kuwait says mosque bomber was young Saudi man, detains driver Posted: 28 Jun 2015 12:26 PM PDT By Ahmed Hagagy KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait on Sunday identified the suicide bomber behind its worst militant attack as a young Saudi Arabian man, and said it had detained the driver of the vehicle that took him to a Shi'ite Muslim mosque where he killed 27 people. The disclosure of the bomber's Saudi nationality is likely to focus the attention of authorities investigating Friday's suicide bombing on ties between Islamists in the small Gulf state and those in its larger, more conservative neighbor. Kuwait's interior ministry named the bomber as Fahd Suliman Abdul-Muhsen al-Qabaa and said he flew into Kuwait's airport at dawn on Friday, only hours before he detonated an explosives-laden vest at Kuwait City's Imam al-Sadeq mosque.

Jailed American in Iran must be freed, say family at Vienna nuclear talks Posted: 28 Jun 2015 11:47 AM PDT Relatives of a U.S. citizen jailed by Iran on spying charges in 2011 attended a nuclear summit in Vienna to call for his release. Amir Hekmati, a 31-year-old Iranian-American, was arrested by Iranian authorities and convicted of espionage, a charge his relatives and the United States deny. "We want to ... put pressure on these talks and to make sure that Amir has to be a priority," the prisoner's sister, Sarah Hekmati, told Reuters on the sidelines of the meeting in Vienna.

Dalai Lama urges happiness and peace at Glastonbury Posted: 28 Jun 2015 11:36 AM PDT The Dalai Lama made his first appearance at Glastonbury on Sunday, spending an hour in the rain addressing festival-goers on how the world could be a happier place. The elderly Buddhist monk hailed the "full joy" of the revellers present, and got into the spirit himself by wearing a Glastonbury t-shirt on his head against the rain.

Gunmen kill senior Iraqi oil official in Iraq's Kirkuk Posted: 28 Jun 2015 10:23 AM PDT Gunmen shot dead a senior oil official working for Iraq's state-run North Oil Company (NOC) on Sunday, police and company officials said. NOC's chief of operations, Saad al-Karbalaie, was killed in the northern oil city of Kirkuk. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on Karbalaie, who was supervising production and export facilities in Kirkuk.

American Al Qaeda to ISIS: No Paradise for You Posted: 28 Jun 2015 09:55 AM PDT The atrocities committed by the terror group ISIS are so horrific that a high-profile al Qaeda member, an American citizen, purportedly addressed the group directly in a new al Qaeda publication and lectured them that if they keep it up, Allah will not grant them paradise in the afterlife. "My dear brothers: While no one can deny the considerable strength and prowess of the Islamic State group [ISIS] in military terms, at the same time, the crimes it has committed against Muslims cannot simply be overlooked or forgotten with time, because in Islam there is no statute of limitations," the late Adam Gadahn said, according to an al Qaeda magazine published recently online.

French beheading selfie 'sent to Syria' Posted: 28 Jun 2015 09:33 AM PDT The gruesome "selfie" taken by a man who has confessed to beheading his boss during an attack on a gas factory in France was sent to Syria, sources close to the investigation said Sunday. The news emerged as Yassin Salhi, 35, was being transferred from France's second city of Lyon to Paris for questioning by specialised anti-terrorist police.

Close aide of Syria's Assad dies of cancer Posted: 28 Jun 2015 09:09 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — A close aide to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Nassif Kheir Bek, has died.

Dalai Lama finds joy in Glastonbury 'people's' festival Posted: 28 Jun 2015 08:27 AM PDT The Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists, visited Europe's biggest green-field music festival on Sunday, saying he had witnessed a sense of joy among revellers young and old. Beijing routinely denounces any country that hosts the Dalai Lama, calling him a dangerous separatist. Last week, a Foreign Ministry spokesman addressed his plan to visit Glastonbury by saying that "China resolutely opposes any country, organisation, body or individual giving any kind of platform to the 14th Dalai Lama to engage in anti-China splittist activities".

U.S., allies conduct air strikes in Syria, Iraq against Islamic State: U.S. military Posted: 28 Jun 2015 07:31 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies staged 17 air strikes against Islamic State positions in Syria and 10 strikes against the militant group in Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said. In Syria, nine of the air strikes hit Islamic State positions near Kobani, five struck near Aleppo and three hit near Tal Abyad, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday. In Iraq, the air strikes hit Islamic State targets near Mosul, Tal Afar, Sinjar, Fallujah, Bayji, Makhmur and Habbaniyah. (Reporting by Eric Beech; editing by Jason Neely)

Kuwait Shiite mosque bomber was Saudi national Posted: 28 Jun 2015 07:27 AM PDT Kuwait on Sunday identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shiite mosque as a Saudi national, after a series of arrests in connection with the blast that left 26 dead. Friday's attack also wounded 227 worshippers in the first bombing of a mosque in the tiny Gulf state and Kuwait's security services have vowed to catch and punish those responsible. In a statement, Kuwait's interior ministry gave the real name of the attacker as Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba'a, born in 1992.

Sudan says students with Western passes believed on way to Syria Posted: 28 Jun 2015 07:12 AM PDT By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Twelve Sudanese medical students, most carrying Western passports, are believed to have travelled to Turkey with the intention of crossing into Syria to join Islamist militant groups, the university's dean of students said on Sunday. If confirmed by authorities, the group would be the second of its kind from Khartoum's University of Medical Sciences and Technology (UMST), founded by a Sudanese Islamist lawmaker, to head to Syria this year. "Twelve students, nine male and three female, in the faculty of medicine left for Turkey last Friday, most of them on Turkish Airlines, without the knowledge of their families," Ahmed Babaker, UMST's dean of students, told Reuters.

IS executes over 3,000 in Syria in year-long 'caliphate': monitor Posted: 28 Jun 2015 07:09 AM PDT The Islamic State group has executed more than 3,000 people in Syria, including hundreds of civilians, in the year since it declared its self-described "caliphate," a monitor said on Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group monitoring Syria's conflict, said it had documented 3,027 executions by IS since June 29, 2014. Among those executed are 1,787 civilians, including 74 children, said the Observatory.

Kuwait names Saudi man as suicide bomber in mosque attack Posted: 28 Jun 2015 06:16 AM PDT KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Kuwaiti authorities on Sunday identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shiite mosque that killed 27 people as a Saudi citizen who flew into the Gulf nation just hours before blowing himself up.

Afghan official: IS group present in at least 3 provinces Posted: 28 Jun 2015 05:06 AM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says the Islamic State group now has a presence in three provinces but that the government is determined to drive it out.

Albanian police arrest brothers suspected of killing officer Posted: 28 Jun 2015 02:48 AM PDT By Benet Koleka TIRANA (Reuters) - Albanian police have arrested two brothers suspected of leading the group of youths that shot dead an elite police officer in a raid on a village known until last year for producing cannabis worth hundred of millions of dollars. A search party of about 500 policemen, backed by helicopters, found the two men from the southern village of Lazarat hiding in a communist-era army shelter in woodland 18 kms (11 miles) north of their home. Prosecutors say Arbion Aliko, 20, and Alban Aliko, 18, were in charge of training a dozen young men over a period of six months to attack the police to restore cannabis production in Lazarat after a massive crackdown on the village a year ago.

European tour operators evacuate thousands from Tunisia after attack Posted: 28 Jun 2015 01:35 AM PDT By Tarek Amara SOUSSE, Tunisia (Reuters) - Tour companies were evacuating thousands of foreign holidaymakers from Tunisia on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed 39 people at a beach hotel in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Tunisia's Prime Minister Habib Essid said most of the dead were British, and Britain's foreign office said 15 Britons had been confirmed killed in the attack in the resort town of Sousse, 140 km (90 miles) south of the capital Tunis. It was the second major attack in the North African country this year, following an Islamist militant assault on the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March when gunmen killed a group of foreign visitors as they arrived by bus.

Australian IS fighter 'still alive' after drone strike: report Posted: 27 Jun 2015 10:59 PM PDT Canberra was Sunday attempting to verify whether an Australian Islamic State group fighter, notorious for being photographed with severed heads, had survived a drone attack after a report said he was still alive. Australian media last week reported that two of the country's most wanted IS jihadists, Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, were believed killed in a drone strike in Syria. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has previously said his government had a "high degree of confidence" that Elomar had been killed in a coalition air strike but could not say the same for Sharrouf.

Today in History Posted: 27 Jun 2015 09:00 PM PDT Today is Sunday, June 28, the 179th day of 2015. There are 186 days left in the year.

Horror on the sand in Tunisian hotel massacre Posted: 27 Jun 2015 08:13 PM PDT By Tarek Amara SOUSSE, Tunisia (Reuters) - Casually dressed in dark shorts, a necklace and T-shirt, he would have looked like any other young Tunisian among the German, British and Irish sunbathers soaking up the Mediterranean heat on one of Tunisia's long, yellow beaches. In just five minutes, armed with the black Kalashnikov he had hidden in his beach umbrella, Saif Rezgui unleashed horror across the Imperial Marhaba resort, leaving 39 victims dead among the deck chairs and pool loungers. It was the worst attack of its kind in Tunisia's modern history.

Kuwait's Shi'ites mourn blast victims and lament sectarianism Posted: 27 Jun 2015 06:22 PM PDT By Angus McDowall KUWAIT (Reuters) - As a body passed, shrouded in Kuwait's flag, dozens of hands were raised from the crowd to support the bier and help carry it toward the Shi'ite Muslim cemetery where most victims of Friday's Islamic State mosque attack were buried on Saturday. Among the thousands of Shi'ite mourners at the Jaafari cemetery in the Sulaibkhat district of Kuwait City, shock and grief were tempered by a grim sense of resignation that a long-feared attack on their community had finally taken place. Relations between Islam's main sects have traditionally been less fraught in Kuwait than in other Gulf Arab states.

Britain mourns at least 15 dead in Tunisia attack Posted: 27 Jun 2015 05:54 PM PDT Three members of the same family were among at least 15 Britons killed in the Tunisia attack, reports said Sunday, in Britain's worst loss of life in a terror incident since the 2005 London bombings. Among the dead were reportedly 19-year-old student Joel Richards, his uncle Adrian Evans, 49, and his grandfather. Announcing the 15 dead, Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood said the number "may well rise, as several more have been seriously injured in this horrific attack".

Inmate to plead guilty in federal prison guard's killing Posted: 27 Jun 2015 05:30 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — An inmate at a federal prison in central California has agreed to plead guilty to killing a correctional officer seven years ago to avoid a possible death sentence, federal prosecutors said.

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